I finally pulled the trigger on the LinnStrument. My Sticking has recently taken a big jump in my ability and I felt guilty whenever I'd return to keyboards. I've long been looking at the LinnStrument, and Jeremy Cubert has convinced me of both the utility and expressiveness in the LinnStrument. That and 2-year no-interest financing at Sweetwater!
I've resolved to not touch a piano-style keyboard controller for at least until the end of this calendar year, a good five months. Any and all keyboards and MIDI data will be entered and manipulated with nothing but the LinnStrument, a mouse, and any one of my Sticks using Jam Origins MIDI Guitar (and Bass).
My 200-key LinnStrument arrives tomorrow! I will probably do an unboxening video and then rock it out some. Cheers!
http://www.rogerlinndesign.com/linnstrument.html
Demo at NAMM by Roger Linn.
Sample videos.
https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/ro ... nnstrument
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And now comes another distinct alternative in the form of the LinnStrument. Its designer, Roger Linn, is a serial innovator. He designed the first programmable, sample–based drum machine in 1979, which arguably changed forever several fundamental aspects of music production. Since then he’s worked with Akai on their MPC workstations, put out the ground–breaking range of AdrenaLinn guitar effects processors, and more recently collaborated with Dave Smith Instruments on the Tempest drum machine. The LinnStrument is his latest product, which once again looks set to challenge the status quo. It aims to deliver a degree of expressivity and real–time performance potential that isn’t normally associated with moving–key controllers and synths. Roger says he’s on a mission to “save the note”, in a world where computer–based producers increasingly deal in the currency of pre–packaged loops and patterns, at the expense of soulful, individual musical performances. Could this new controller really turn things around?
